https://freerepublic.com/tag/53rdmonthffs/ en-us Sat, 6 Jun 2026 19:29:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382624/posts Keir Starmer will host Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz for talks in Downing Street on Sunday to discuss support for Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader will visit the UK with the French president and German chancellor after a week of heightened hostilities and Vladimir Putin’s rejection of his proposal of face-to-face talks on Moscow’s war. The three countries meeting the Ukrainian leader are some of Kyiv’s staunchest allies. The UK and France are leading the “coalition of the willing” initiative to provide security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a peace process. A large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeted St... The Guardian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382624/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2026 19:29:10 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382551/posts Ukraine launched one of its largest drone offensives of the war overnight into June 6, sending more than 400 unmanned aircraft deep into Russian territory and striking targets that included a naval weapons depot near Saint Petersburg, an oil refinery in Siberia, a port in Russian-occupied Mariupol, and munitions warehouses in the Leningrad region. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed its air defenses shot down 376 of the incoming drones, a figure that, if accurate, still left dozens reaching their intended targets across a geographic spread stretching from the Baltic coast to western Siberia. The attacks came on the final day of... Defense Blog https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4382551/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2026 09:46:02 GMT